Cage nut having a cylindrical nut body (14) provided with a coaxial bore having an interior thread, wherein the nut body is ending in an rectangular plate (16) and, wherein the nut body (14) by means of the rectangular plate (16) is floatingly supported within a cage (12) and, wherein the entire cage nut (10), i.e. the nut body (14), and the cage (12) merely is manufactured from a single strip (100) of metal sheet by tube-forming, thread-cutting, bending and punching as well as a method for producing such a cage nut.